Bond crew film at world's largest greenhouse

James Bond director Lee Tamahori and a team from Eon Productions are filiming the next Bond flick, starring Pierce Brosnan, at the world’s largest greenhouse, which lies in a former clay pit near St Austell in Cornwall.

The £86m (€141m) Eden Project is this weekend playing host to the film crew for scenes in its spectacular giant biomes or dome-shaped greenhouses.

The world’s largest greenhouse lies in a former clay pit near St Austell in Cornwall.

Tomorrow they are due to begin filming at Eden for the 20th James Bond movie and they are understood to be planning three 12-hour shoots.

Pierce Brosnan will again star as the suave Secret Service agent in the film due for release in November.

He is not expected to be at the shoot in Cornwall, but Toby Stephens, who plays his arch-rival Gustav Graves in the film, will be at Eden.

Over the past few weeks, the film crew has also been at Holywell Bay near Newquay transforming the golden Cornish sands into a North Korean battlefield for the movie.

The Eden Project recreates the world’s different climates inside giant domes called biomes.

The largest is the humid tropics biome which is tall enough to house the Tower of London.

It contains thousands of exotic plants from all over the world as well as a rainforest and a 25-metre waterfall.

Eden, which was part funded by the British Millennium Commission, aims to show man’s relationship with and dependence on plants.